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Title: Look at the Harlequins!

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN: 9780679727286

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published: 1990

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Reissue

Condition Note: New from the publisher

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A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian émigré who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the images of his past from young love to his serious illness. – “Good farce throbbing with his well-known obsessions.” -V.S. Pritchett, The New York Review ‘Look at the harlequins … Play! Invent the world! Invent reality’. This is the childhood advice given by an aunt to Russian born writer Vadim Vadimovich, who emigrates to England, then Paris, then Germany and then the US. Now dying, he reconstructs his past. He remembers Iris his first wife, Annette his long-necked typist, and Bel his daughter, as well as his own bizarre illness, ‘numerical nimbus syndrome’.